<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Cecil Times &#187; sanctions</title>
	<atom:link href="https://ceciltimes.com/tag/sanctions/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>https://ceciltimes.com</link>
	<description>News and Views for Cecil County and the Eastern Shore of Maryland</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:25:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38</generator>
	<item>
		<title>Judge Rules Smigiel Off the Hook to Pay Taxpayers&#8217; $40K Legal Bill for his Lawsuit Against Cecil County</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2014/02/judge-rules-smigiel-off-the-hook-to-pay-taxpayers-40k-legal-bill-for-his-lawsuit-against-cecil-county/</link>
		<comments>https://ceciltimes.com/2014/02/judge-rules-smigiel-off-the-hook-to-pay-taxpayers-40k-legal-bill-for-his-lawsuit-against-cecil-county/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil county government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[county commissioner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Smigiel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Central Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Mike Smigiel"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[county attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Allison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tari Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://ceciltimes.com/?p=3637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know it’s going to be an interesting, or circuitous, argument when a legal or political document begins with an 1835 quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville, that astute observer of early America. A Circuit Court judge recently struck both legal and political notes in ruling that Del. Michael Smigiel (R-36) should not be required to pay nearly $40,000 in county legal fees for his losing lawsuit challenging Tari Moore’s change in political party registration. “There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn’t sooner or later turn into a judicial one,” visiting Judge Thomas E. Marshall wrote, beginning his opinion with the quotation from de Tocqueville. And the judge cited lots of local politics before concluding that Smigiel’s handling of his lawsuit didn’t rise to the level of “bad faith” that would meet stringent state legal standards for “sanctions” that would have required him to compensate the county government for legal fees it had to pay to defend itself against Smigiel’s lawsuit. “The original complaint contained allegations of political chicanery,” the judge observed. And Smigiel’s named client in the case, Chris Zeauskas, chair of the county’s Republican Central Committee, was “not amused by Mrs. Moore’s political maneuver.” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>https://ceciltimes.com/2014/02/judge-rules-smigiel-off-the-hook-to-pay-taxpayers-40k-legal-bill-for-his-lawsuit-against-cecil-county/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Cecil County Asks &#8216;Sanctions,&#8217; $40K from Del. Smigiel for Costs of his Losing Lawsuit Against County Exec Over Political Party Shift</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/11/cecil-county-seeks-sanctions-40k-from-del-smigiel-for-costs-to-fight-his-losing-lawsuit-against-county-exec-over-political-party-shift/</link>
		<comments>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/11/cecil-county-seeks-sanctions-40k-from-del-smigiel-for-costs-to-fight-his-losing-lawsuit-against-county-exec-over-political-party-shift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2013 23:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[campaign finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil county government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[county commissioner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Smigiel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Central Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Chris Zeauskas"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Mike Smigiel"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[county executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delegate Smigiel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Allison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liquor board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanctions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tari Moore]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://ceciltimes.com/?p=3487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County government is seeking court “sanctions” against Del. Michael Smigiel and repayment of nearly $40,000 the county spent to defend itself against a losing lawsuit by Smigiel challenging County Executive Tari Moore’s post-election shift from Republican to “unaffiliated.” A judge ruled several weeks ago that Smigiel’s case had “no support whatsoever” in the law and that the Elkton lawyer hadn’t even bothered to file responding briefs in the case. It is Smigiel’s failure to take any action in his case after the initial filing of a complaint last January that is at the heart of the motion filed several days ago by Jason Allison, the Cecil County Attorney. The motion details how Smigiel repeatedly did “nothing” to bolster or argue his case and that he failed to respond to repeated legal warnings that his case was fundamentally deficient. Consequently, Allison contends Smigiel acted in “bad faith” and the Circuit Court should impose “sanctions” and require Smigiel to reimburse the county for its legal expenses in the case. Smigiel filed the case on behalf of Chris Zeauskas, chair of the county’s Republican Central Committee, but the county is not seeking any sanctions or reimbursements from Zeauskas. A solid majority [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/11/cecil-county-seeks-sanctions-40k-from-del-smigiel-for-costs-to-fight-his-losing-lawsuit-against-county-exec-over-political-party-shift/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Cecil County Council: Potty Mouths, Potty Breaks, Port-a-Potties; Decorum Degenerates, Hodge Biz Plans Get Cold Shoulders</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/10/3406/</link>
		<comments>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/10/3406/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cecil county government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cecil Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elkton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellis Rollins III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Hodge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan McCarthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[council president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decorum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diana Broomell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyce Bowlsbey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanctions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://ceciltimes.com/?p=3406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council, which has spent much of its ten months of existence arguing over how members should behave, dissolved into yet another verbal slugfest Tuesday over how to enforce standards of “decorum”—and an unusual split among the current panel majority over a plan by Council President Robert Hodge (R-5) to help local businesses to get a piece of the financial action on local government contracts. At the Council’s Tuesday morning worksession, a revised version of previously proposed steps to enforce standards of proper behavior among members of the County Council was denounced by Councilor Alan McCarthy (R-1) as “watered down to the point of being useless.” His objections were to proposed revisions, drafted by Councilor Diana Broomell (R-4), that emphasized sanctions that should be imposed on members of the audience at Council meetings, rather than provisions previously proposed that mirrored the standard “Roberts Rules of Order” that empower the presiding officer—usually, the Council President—to impose order and gavel offending Councilors to silence, an apology, or in the extreme, banishment from a meeting. So McCarthy made a motion to simply scrap detailed and escalating levels of sanctions and instead use the Roberts Rules provisions that would empower the presiding [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/10/3406/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
